Naum Epelbaum

Naum Epelbaum was born in Akkerman, Bessarabia, on May 1, 1927, and graduated from the Mukhina school in Leningrad in 1956. He became known for his animal sculpture. With Lazar Dubinovsky he made Liberation from Fascism (1969) in Chișinău.

He later made memorials to the victims of fascism at Doroțcaia (1989), to the Chișinău ghetto (1991) and to the victims of the 1903 pogrom (1993). He was married to the sculptor Brunhilda Epelbaum-Marchenko. He emigrated to Israel and died in Bat Yam on October 13, 2019.